How To Install evince on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince
on CentOS 7.
What is evince
Evince is simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS) and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. When supported by the document format, evince allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, table-of-contents bookmarks and editing of forms. Support for other document formats such as DVI and DJVU can be added by installing additional backends.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install evince
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install evince.
Install evince on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install evince
using yum
by running the following command:
Install evince on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install evince
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall evince on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the evince
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.